Hi everyone, I need your opinion on problem with my BP. She is about 2 years old. About three months ago problems started, first by my ignorance BP had gotten belly burns from heat pad. I started dealing with that, using dermazin and betadine. Her next shed was bad, she had skin all over her. But the biggest problem was tip of tail that did not shed properly. A piece of skin covering about 1 cm of tail tip remained. I tryed to remove it with wet towel, soaking tail in warm water. But by the time we managed to remove that part couple of scales had lifted exposing skin on tip of tail. Here is how it looked, then. Until that time she had never had shedding problems.
Next shed came very quick after that, about two weeks later. This time she had shed properly but scales from the tip of tail fell of with her skin. That was one month ago. Three days ago here belly started turning pink, and yesterday we noticed tip of her tail is starting to turn black. Here is how it looks.
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Couple of things I would like to point out. She is acting normally, she is active. She is eating, she has gained on weight and size since the burned bell problem. I read somewhere that if snake has necroses, that part of body smell bad, but here tail does not smell different from the rest of her body. Any ideas how to deal with this.
Thank you.
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